Hammil v. People

Plaintiff in error, who will be here referred to as defendant, was convicted of first degree murder and sentenced to death. It will be sufficient for the purpose of this review to merely outline the essential facts surrounding the happenings which furnish the basis for the *579charge and it will be unnecessary to detail all of the shocking and sordid facts which appear in the record.

On August 27, 1958, Lester Gordon Brown, Jr., an eleven-year-old boy, went to the Denver Coliseum where a circus was appearing. While watching the animals at the circus he talked to the defendant and was told by the…